Yes, fundementals will outlast tools

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Study computer science as a full degree. Algorithms, systems, theory and mathematics stay relevant whatever tools are used to write code.

Reasons

1.
Someone still has to judge whether AI-written code is correct, secure and fast, and that takes the understanding a degree teaches.
- Supports
  Developers who used AI tools in a controlled study were slower than they thought, so checking the output is real work, not a formality.
  - METR (metr.org)
Objections
- Objection · Overstated
  Reviewing code needs far fewer people than writing it did, so this keeps some jobs, not the same number.
  - Yes, fundementals will outlast tools · Leaves something out
    Cheaper software has usually led to more software being built, not less work for the people who build it.
    source requested · 1
2.
Algorithms, data structures, operating systems and theory have stayed useful through every change in programming tools so far.
Objections
- Yes, but combined with another field · Doesn’t follow
  That the fundamentals last doesn’t mean a whole degree of them is the best use of four years.

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